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Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 26
Great chemistry between the leads made this a warm and charming delight.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 5
Great chemistry between the leads made this a warm and charming delight.
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Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The story brings romance and courtship into the electronic age of the World Wide Web via e-mail and chat rooms. Joe Fox (Hanks) and Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) live and work blocks from each other on New York City's Upper West Side.
Dec 18, 1998 Wide
May 4, 1999
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (83) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (27) | DVD (18)
The coincidences that make the destined lovers' paths cross aren't contrived with much finesse, but the characters get in some decidedly clever lines.
Mail may not be as romantic as Sleepless, but it's wittier.
A love story destined to be remembered as one of the best of the decade.
Fully-stocked, well-oiled and soulless, You've Got Mail sure feels like a franchise operation -- all that's missing is a greeter and a discount card.
Every time You've Got Mail is about to choke on its own cleverness, it's resuscitated by its extremely likable -- oh heck, let's just call them lovable -- stars.
There's no denying the chemistry between Hanks, whose comparisons to Jimmy Stewart are becoming annoyingly accurate, and Ryan, whose schoolgirl cuteness is finally taking on a layer of matured confidence.
Drenched in schmaltz and oozing with saccharine sweetness, Hanks and Ryan squeeze every last drop of cornball sentimentality out of the script, but -- despite all the puff about their on-screen chemistry -- fail to ignite many sparks.
The well-honed dramedic performances by endearingly mock-cranky Hanks and quirky, cryin' Ryan add just enough weight to what might otherwise float away...[Blu-ray]
Predictable-but-sweet romantic comedy.
Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and America Online. Could you be anymore 1990s?
...easy to enjoy unless you're dead set against romances in the first place. (Blu-ray Edition)
...you've got a lot of saccharine sweetness in the film, but it's a good kind of sweetness, a gentle, loveable, delightful sweetness.
The clumsily loaded characterisation not only treats almost every other figure as dispensable, but doesn't even bother to make Meg and Tom properly sympathetic.
You've Got Mail is not as saccharine as I expected, but the sugar-coated love story offers us nothing new or original.
There's no denying the on-screen chemistry between Hanks and Ryan, but still it never really seems to spark as much as it did in Sleepless in Seattle.
There is something marvelously contrived about this classic situation: two attractive and incongruous characters who don't know what we know:They belong with each, and when the heck will they get together?
You've Got Mail is probably not as engaging as Sleepless, with which it will inevitably be compared, but it has its moments.
It's a good date movie, and I recommend it. But don't forget to rent The Shop Around the Corner.
This film enchanted me, and even if it did work for me slightly better as a comedy than as a romance, it's still a great comedy -- and Ryan and Hanks are teriffic.
Yes, You've Got Mail isn't strikingly profound or groundbreaking, but it's one of these movies that just make you feel real good.
I am tackling my demons and attempting a few Rom Coms, this would usually be the type of film I would side step, but I will admit to liking this a little and finding the two sides of the relationship interesting.
July 28, 2006Super Reviewer
Dispite, Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail, looks like a weak and odd version of Sleepless in Seattle and that don't present some finals elements of the plot, this movie show a good chemistry between Ms. Ryan and Mr. Hanks characters and in a skilful way, Ms. Ephron make the audience be delighted with the strange and sweet
January 11, 2012Super Reviewer
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